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short, yellow, with four browu Hues, the lateral ones only reach 



the sulcus; antei'ior part of mesothorax mostly dark brown, with a 



pale narrow stripe each side, each lateral lobe shows a small pale 



spot above the base of fore wing; scutellum of mesothorax pale 



with a medium dark stripe (not one each side as in most species) ; 



metathorax pale with a median brown spot forked and divergent 



in front, sides dark bi'own ; pleura of thoi'ax almost wholly dark; 



legs pale yellow, without marks except base and apex of the tarsi 



dark ; abdomen pale at base, lineate with dark, dark at tip ; wings 



hyaline, costals forked only near tip, three transversals before the 



radial sector, pterostigma pale, dark on base; v^eins dark, interrupted 



with pale, except the vein behind radial sector which is wholly 



pale, at otecLd of most of the transversals (including those ending 



on radial sector ard fork of same) there is a large dark spot, also 



one at er.d of each costal and a rather larger mark terminating the 



pale vein near the tip of wing ; hir.d wings much less marked. 



Length to tip of wings, 20 mm. 



Tehama, California. August [A. P. Morse]. 



This species belongs in the group of jB. o6c?ow/ho//« which ma}"^ 

 be distirouished by having a median stripe on the mesoscutellum, 

 and a wholly pale vein behind the radial sector. The four species 

 may be separated as follows: 



1— Eadial sector wholly dark, four stripes upon the pronotum 2 



Radial sector more or less pale, a stripe on each side of pro- 

 notum, 3 



2— Spots along radial sector, small species maculosus. 



No spots along radial sector blandus. 



3 — Spots scattered, basal part of radial sector interrupted with 

 dark abdominalis- 



Spots mostly an-anged along the radial and median veins, basal 

 part of radial sector wholly pale tenuis. 



Brachyiiemwi(,s blandus Hag. 



B. cogufiletti Currie. 



There is, I think, no doubt that Currie's species is identical with 



Hagen's, The peculiar markings of the pronotum in B. cogxdlletti 



agree with those ascribed by Hagen to B hlandus, and to no other 



form. There is considerable variation in size in this as in other 



species of the genus. 



Brachynemvrus paUidus n. sp. 



Pale yellowish, dark around bases of antennae, two dark spots on 

 vertex, tips of palpi dark, antenrae pale bi'ownish; prothorax 

 shows only the lateral stripes and these are very indistinct, but each 

 tip shows a prominent dark dot at the sulcus; thorax with a few 

 dark spots, no signs of marks on mesoscutellum ; aldcmen pale yel- 

 low, with a median and lateral dark line, apex obscure; legs pale 

 yellow, unmarked, except the joints of tarsi are tipped with dark ; 

 wings clear, without marks, veins dark, interrupted with pale, but 

 without any adjoining clouds, pterostigma dai-ker at base; hind 



